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Cooking up some magic realism Director Alfonso Arau mixes love and "Chocolate"
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In "Like Water for Chocolate," the new film based on the
best-selling novel of the same name by Mexican writer Laura Esquivel,
food is an instrument of love, the kitchen a crossroads of deep
mysteries and everyday life, cooking a sensual alchemy.
"Do I cook?" responds director Alfonso Arau, Esquivel's husband.
He looks up from his plate, caught in mid-motion, and in one gesture
puts down his fork and knife, discreetly touches the corners of his
mouth and raises his hands to his chest, palms out, as if in
surrender. "Nooo, not at all. I am the typical spoiled male
Mexican, whose mother was a ...
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